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Latitude: 52.2073 / 52°12'26"N
Longitude: 1.5755 / 1°34'31"E
OS Eastings: 644385
OS Northings: 262595
OS Grid: TM443625
Mapcode National: GBR XQH.P39
Mapcode Global: VHM7Q.8S76
Plus Code: 9F436H4G+W5
Entry Name: The Long Shop
Listing Date: 14 October 1976
Last Amended: 2 August 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1287610
English Heritage Legacy ID: 401763
Also known as: The Long Shop Museum
ID on this website: 101287610
Location: Leiston, East Suffolk, IP16
County: Suffolk
District: East Suffolk
Civil Parish: Leiston
Built-Up Area: Leiston
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Leiston St Margaret
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Museum Independent museum
TM 46 SW LEISTON-CUM-SIZEWELL MAIN STREET
4/37 The Long Shop
(formerly listed as The Long
Shop (formerly part of the
premises of Richard Garrett
Limited)
14.10.76
GV II*
Built as a workshop in 1853 for the manufacture of portable steam engines; now
under restoration as a museum. Red brick with yellow brick dressings; pantile
roof with 3 louvred ventilators at ridge level. Timber bell-turret at the east
end. 2-storeys. 9 bays long (the centre one wider than the others) and 3 bays
wide. The east end tripartite with central square headed entrance and arched
windows, that above the entrance longer than the 4 in the outer bays and with a
clock face in the gable above. The west end similar but altered and without a
clock. The side windows all segmental-headed. All windows with iron glazing
bars and set back within the wall surface which thus appears pilastered. The
interior has fitters' galleries at first floor level leaving an open central
well.
Listing NGR: TM4442562640
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